Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In 1937 Finland was growing rich from the export of timber and heady from the end of prohibition. The Savoy, Helsinki ...

Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898 -1976) was clearly a details man. Commissioned (alongside his wife, Aino Marsio) in 1936 to design the swanky Savoy restaurant in Helskini, he thought through every ...

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The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

Czech designer Jan Čtvrtník has won the Climate Competition organised by Droog with a vase based on Alvar Aalto's famous design, but modified to express the effects of global warming. The Aalto vase ...

The father of Modernism left a legacy of around 400 architectural projects in his home country, the highlights of which can be seen on a tour of southern Finland. Anyone who has visited an Apple store ...

According to Alvar Aalto: “Objects are made to be completed by the human mind.” This curiously profound saying could be applied to most abstract adventures in art, and the designer and architect, ...

Ute Junker discovers the secrets of Finnish identity at a Helsinki design exhibition. Seventy years ago, Finnish architect Alvar Aalto entered a competition seeking design objects to display at ...